The impact of COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown on smoking habits and lifestyle: A cross‐sectional study حسب Almu'atasim Khamees (11875640)

"…Females who started smoking last year were 2.6‐fold more than males (<i>p</i>< 0.0001). We also noticed that there is a significant relationship between those who started smoking and are <18 years, living in a family consisting of seven members or more, being unemployed, having a diploma or bachelor's degree in a health‐related major, having no chronic illnesses, increasing of daily meals or night meals, almost daily sugar intake, starting to follow social media account concerning physical activity, exercising once or twice a week, and sleeping more hours per day since the beginning of the pandemic (<i>p</i> < 0.01).…"

Arginine Deprivation in AML Cells Induces Ferroptosis, a Type of Autophagy-Mediated Cell Death حسب Tohme, Sara

"…Overall, these findings provide evidence that arginine deprivation induced by [HuArgI(Co)-PEG5000] leads to increased ROS production, lipid peroxidation, and dysregulation of iron metabolism and antioxidant pathways, all of which are hallmarks for the occurrence of ferroptosis in AML cells following arginine deprivation. …"
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Exploring Household Food Dynamics During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Morocco حسب Hamid El Bilali (15864930)

"…The findings show that consumers' diet, shopping behavior, and food interactions have changed significantly. Indeed, the survey outcomes indicated (i) an increase in the consumption of local items owing to food safety concerns; (ii) an increase in online grocery shopping; (iii) a rise in panic buying and food hoarding; and (iv) an increase in culinary capabilities. …"

Burst Round Robin as a Proportional-Share Scheduling Algorithm حسب Helmy, Tarek

"…We present a novel weight adjustment for processes that are blocked for I/O and lose some CPU time to assure proportional fairness. …"
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Impact of COVID‑19 pandemic restrictions and subsequent relaxation on the prevalence of respiratory virus hospitalizations in children حسب Ahmed Abushahin (17337703)

"…RSV infection rate dropped significantly during the COVID-19 season to 10.4% and then increased again during the post-COVID-19 season to 29.1% (<i>P</i> < 0.001). …"

The predictors of successful methotrexate treatment of tubal ectopic pregnancy حسب Eiman Abdelfattah-Arafa (18184966)

"…Younger age (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 2.33, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.16–4.66, <i>p</i>= .017), no pelvic pain (aOR 2.65, 95%CI 1.03–6.83, <i>p</i> = .043), lower initial β-hCG level (aOR 1.32, 95%CI 1.08–1.59, <i>p</i> = .005), and absence of foetal cardiac activity (aOR 12.63; 95% CI 1.04–153.6; <i>p</i>= .047) were independently associated with success. …"

Engineering the Surface and Mechanical Properties of Water Desalination Membranes Using Ultralong Carbon Nanotubes حسب Yehia M. Manawi (18091207)

"…More pronounced effect on membrane’s mechanical properties was observed due to compatibility of CNTs with PS matrix when compared to other factors (i.e., changes in the CNT aspect ratio). The water contact angle for PS membranes incorporated with commercial CNT sharply decreased from 73° to 53° (membrane hydrophilization) for membranes with 0.1 and 1.0 wt. % of CNTs, while for the same loading of produced CNTs the water contact angles for the membrane samples increased from 66° to 72°. …"

Economic Statistical Design Of (X)Over-Bar Control Charts For Systems With Gamma(Lambda, 2) In-Control Times حسب Al-Oraini, H.A.

"…The study shows that the statistical performance of control charts can be improved significantly, with only a slight increase in the cost, by adding constraints to the optimization problem. …"
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Economic Statistical Design Of (X)Over-Bar Control Charts For Systems With Gamma (Lambda,2) In-Control Times حسب Al-Oraini, H.A.

"…The study shows that the statistical performance of control charts can be improved significantly, with only a slight increase in the cost, by adding constraints to the optimization problem. …"
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Enhanced cellular uptake and photochemotherapeutic potential of a lipophilic strained Ru(II) polypyridyl complex حسب Mehanna, Stephanie

"…Cellular uptake of complex 1 and the free BC ligand were found to be significantly facilitated as evidenced by 400–600 fold increase in concentration of the compounds inside the cells relative to the extracellular culture medium. …"
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Acute exposure to cigarette smoking followed by myocardial infarction aggravates renal damage in an In vivo mouse model حسب Kobeissy, Firas

"…Molecular analysis revealed that nephrin expression was significantly reduced in the S+MI group, whereas sodium-hydrogen exchanger-1 (NHE-1) was significantly increased, suggesting altered glomerular filtration and kidney functions. …"
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The effect of sperm DNA fragmentation on intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcome حسب Kareim Khalafalla (14148807)

"…According to the female status, patients were differentiated into favourable group (<i>n</i> = 259) with female age <35 years and anti-Mullerian hormone level ≥7.1 pmol/L; and unfavourable group (<i>n</i> = 133) with female age ≥35 years and anti-Mullerian hormone level ≤7.1 pmol/L. …"

The protective role of lidocaine in surgeries involving trigeminal nerve manipulation: a meta-analysis of trigeminocardiac reflex prevention حسب Almonzer Al-Qiami (22393303)

"…The incidence of TCR was significantly lower in the lidocaine group compared to the control group, with a risk ratio of 0.05 (95% CI 0.01 to 0.37, <i>P</i> = 0.003). …"

Numerical Modeling of Sequential Segmentation for Enhancement of Mixing Inside Microchannels حسب Abu Dagga, Ibragim

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Antioxidant Activity Mediates Pirfenidone Antifibrotic Effects in Human Pulmonary Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Exposed to Sera of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients حسب Alessandro Giuseppe Fois (2901365)

"…Here, we demonstrated for the first time that an increase of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation induced by sera from IPF patients drives both collagen type I deposition and proliferation of primary human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (HPASMCs). …"

Screen Time Soars and Vision Suffers: How School Closures During the Pandemic Affected Children and Adolescents’ Eyesight حسب Muna Abed Alah (18336771)

"…Furthermore, logistic regression analysis showed that local students and those with a history of visual disturbances were 1.7 times (AOR: 1.73, 95%CI 1.18–2.54, <i>p</i> = 0.005) and 2.5 times (AOR: 2.52, 95%CI 1.69–3.76, <i>p</i> < 0.001) more likely to experience decline of visual acuity respectively. …"

Systemic Chemotherapy and Two-Stage Hepatectomy for Extensive Bilateral Colorectal Liver Metastases حسب Chun, Yun Shin

"…Median number of metastases in groups I and II were two (range 1–20) and seven (range 2–20). …"
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Initial risk assessment for pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD حسب Yammine, Joe

"…Diffusion capacity was lower but did not reach statistical significance (P = 0.07). In multivariate analysis, statistically significant independent variables were >3% decrease in exercise oxyhemoglobin saturation and decline in prebronchodilator FEV1 (P = 0.01 and P = 0.04, respectively). …"
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β-2-himachalen-6-ol protects against skin cancer development in vitro and in vivo حسب Daaboul, Hamid E.

"…A significant decrease in protein levels of p53 and Bcl-2 and a significant increase in p21 and Bax were observed. …"
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Immunomodulatory effects of tumor Lactate Dehydrogenase C (LDHC) in breast cancer حسب Adviti Naik (673163)

"…In direct co-cultures, <i>LDHC</i> knockdown reduced the levels of pro-tumorigenic cytokines (IL-1β, IL-4 and IL-6) and increased the secretion of the chemokine CXCL1. …"